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| [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] |
| [[Category:Date 1974]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1974]] |
| | [[Category:Questions On... Devotional Dress, Paraphernalia]] |
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| <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> | | <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> |
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| <div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> | | <div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
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| <div id="QuestionsandAnswersJanuary171974Hawaii_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="11" link="Questions and Answers -- January 17, 1974, Hawaii" link_text="Questions and Answers -- January 17, 1974, Hawaii"> | | <div id="QuestionsandAnswersJanuary171974Hawaii_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="11" link="Questions and Answers -- January 17, 1974, Hawaii" link_text="Questions and Answers -- January 17, 1974, Hawaii"> |
| <div class="heading">Yes, important. Just like officially the policeman must dress, but a policeman sometimes in ordinary cloth also, that's his duty. But that is special case. But external, external dress is also required. | | <div class="heading">Yes, important. Just like officially the policeman must dress, but a policeman sometimes in ordinary cloth also, that's his duty. But that is special case. But external, external dress is also required. |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Questions and Answers -- January 17, 1974, Hawaii|Questions and Answers -- January 17, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That is not our life, to become an impostor. It must be real person. By training, yaḥ śāstra-vidhiṁ siddhiḥ, by training under the teaching of a bona fide spiritual master, the śāstra, and then you'll automatically, the more you become a sincere, I mean to say, servitor of the spiritual master, the more you become qualified to become a teacher in the future. Otherwise where is your qualification? You may cheat others that you are teacher, but you are not actually teacher. You have no lesson, no education. A cheating is another thing. But practically to become a teacher... Just like in a school, teacher... A teacher is appointed. When the certificate is there that he has passed M.A. examination, and he has undergone the training, B.T., Bachelor training, then he's appointed: "Yes, you can be a teacher." And then a bogus man, he can be... He cannot be accepted as teacher. So that is going on. A bogus man, they're becoming teachers. Therefore the world condition is so degraded. A cheater is taking the place of teacher. Therefore the whole world is degraded.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Questions and Answers -- January 17, 1974, Hawaii|Questions and Answers -- January 17, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That is not our life, to become an impostor. It must be real person. By training, yaḥ śāstra-vidhiṁ siddhiḥ, by training under the teaching of a bona fide spiritual master, the śāstra, and then you'll automatically, the more you become a sincere, I mean to say, servitor of the spiritual master, the more you become qualified to become a teacher in the future. Otherwise where is your qualification? You may cheat others that you are teacher, but you are not actually teacher. You have no lesson, no education. A cheating is another thing. But practically to become a teacher... Just like in a school, teacher... A teacher is appointed. When the certificate is there that he has passed M.A. examination, and he has undergone the training, B.T., Bachelor training, then he's appointed: "Yes, you can be a teacher." And then a bogus man, he can be... He cannot be accepted as teacher. So that is going on. A bogus man, they're becoming teachers. Therefore the world condition is so degraded. A cheater is taking the place of teacher. Therefore the whole world is degraded.</p> |
| <p>Woman devotee: If we have a desire to keep these promises, but we have a hard time to do it...</p> | | <p>Woman devotee: If we have a desire to keep these promises, but we have a hard time to do it...</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: As soon as you fail to keep your promise, then you're fallen. You have to rectify yourself. Immediately you're fallen. Yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-kārataḥ, na sa siddhim ([[Vanisource:BG 16.23|BG 16.23]]). That means you'll never get perfection. You'll fall down. You can cheat others that "I am in dress of a devotee, so I am..." What is your character? What is your actual value? That has to be judged. That is call bona fide teacher. All right, chant. (brief japa chanting) Any questions?</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: As soon as you fail to keep your promise, then you're fallen. You have to rectify yourself. Immediately you're fallen. Yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-kārataḥ, na sa siddhim ([[Vanisource:BG 16.23 (1972)|BG 16.23]]). That means you'll never get perfection. You'll fall down. You can cheat others that "I am in dress of a devotee, so I am..." What is your character? What is your actual value? That has to be judged. That is call bona fide teacher. All right, chant. (brief japa chanting) Any questions?</p> |
| <p>Devotee (1): Yes, one more.</p> | | <p>Devotee (1): Yes, one more.</p> |
| <p>Guest: Is the exterior clothing important?</p> | | <p>Guest: Is the exterior clothing important?</p> |
